This disk contains an ascii data file of 901 cases, 'apsrlott.dat',
used to generate the results in Table 1 of Berry and Berry's article, 
"State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations," American 
Political Science Review, June 1990.

The file 'apsrrepl.lim' contains commands to estimate the probit models 
reported in Table 1 of the article using LIMDEP 7.0; the file 
'apsrrepl.out' is the associated output.

It is recommended that before undertaking analyses with these data,
users reproduce the descriptive statistics for variables found in 
the LIMDEP output in 'apsrrepl.out' to make certain that the data 
on this disk have not been changed from the original version.
 
A codebook for the data in 'apsrlott.dat' follows:

variable          columns
--------          -------
state             2-3
year              5-6  
adopt             8
fiscal_1          11-16
party             18  ("9" = missing value)
elect1            21
elect2            23
income_1          25-31
neighbor          37
nbrpercn          39-44
religion          46-49  

Throughout, variables ending in '_1' indicate variables lagged one year. 
All variable names are as they appear in the article, except NBRPERCN,
which is the alternative NEIGHBORS indicator based on the percentage of
previously adopting bordering states discussed on p. 405 of the article.
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